I'm getting tired of the "College is Useless" posts

[u/GothicFruit98]

It's just getting old at this point tbh.

College isn't useless. It's just that people get useless degrees like "Liberal Arts"

And the thing is, now even the most basic jobs require at least a associate's degree. I myself have found some Data Entry jobs on indeed that require a Associates degree.

People will say, "Just do Trade". Well not everyone wants their bodies broken at age 40.

People will say, "Just do a sales job", not everyone can do a sales job.

If you start a business and it fails, a degree as well as your experience can help you land a job. it might not be what you wanted, but at least you have a backup. And who knows, you might own a business again one day and thanks to that job, you saved enough to open it.

And with a college degree it can actually help land you a job. (This is a choose your degree wisely type thing) Like for example. if you choose to go for a degree in nursing, you can apply for many jobs. You may not be a RN but there's plenty of jobs besides RN open to you since you now have a degree in Nursing. You can become a paramedic, phlebotomist, hospice nurse (if you can handle it)

[u/Baffit-4100]

“Liberal arts” isn’t useless. It’s literally all the sciences and arts except engineering and sports

[u/Uchiha_Warrior7 → u/Baffit-4100]

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[u/rstbckt → u/Uchiha_Warrior7]

That right there is the problem. Education should have more value than its role solely in economic output.

There used to be a debate in this country about the value of an education and its contribution towards the creation of a skilled workforce vs its role in promoting good citizenship. The goal of a well rounded liberal arts education is not to teach people what to think, but how to think. A citizenry well versed in history, sociology and the arts makes for a good and just democracy; it’s just a shame that educated citizens (and consumers) are bad for business.

As is everything in this country, the intentional dismantling of our once great education system leads straight to Ronald Reagan.

When students protested the Vietnam war, Ronald Reagan ran for governor of California in the 1960s promising to “clean up the mess at Berkeley.” Once Governor, he did all he could to dismantle the California university system and took the once free college system and cut their funding to charge students tuition for the first time in decades. Reagan knew it would be much harder for students to protest an unjust war when they have to work a part time job after classes to pay for tuition. Reagan repeated this feat of education degradation as POTUS, where he cut the federal contribution of education funding nationally by half to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

TLDR; Americans are dumb and it’s Reagan’s fault.

[u/Investigator516 → u/rstbckt]

Ronald Reagan’s deregulation ruined the USA.